Jan Philipp Albrecht

Jan Philipp Albrecht ( born December 20, 1982 in Braunschweig ) is a German - French politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ). He is the youngest German deputy to the European Parliament the 7th parliamentary term.

Life

Albrecht grew up in wins and Wolfenbüttel. With a web presence for the school newspaper his school, he twice won the Lower Saxony Youth Press Prize (2000 and 2002). Albrecht studied law from 2003 to 2008 in Bremen, Brussels and Berlin and worked among others for the Greens in the European Parliament and at the Walter Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law of the Humboldt University in Berlin. He leads a double master the Universities of Hanover and Oslo in European legal computer science and was a fellow of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the DAAD. Albrecht, the German and French citizenship.

Policy

Since 1999 Albrecht is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens. From 2001 to 2003 he was a member of the county Board of his party in Wolfenbüttel. In 2001, Albrecht the local Green Youth, was speaker of the Brunswick Regional Association and from 2002 to 2005 Member of the Lower Saxony State Executive Committee. From 2006 to 2008, Albrecht was speaker of the Federation of Green Youth and represented the youth association in party leadership and party council of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2004, Albrecht actively engaged in the technical working groups of the Greens to democracy and the rule at the state and federal level. Since 2009 he is a member of the party council of Lower Saxony's countryside.

The focus of his political work lie mainly in the domestic and legal policy as well as in European politics. Among other things, Albrecht appealed against the use of Tornado combat aircraft of the Armed Forces at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007. He advocates the abolition of retention and was one of many complainants before the Federal Constitutional Court. Albrecht is committed to an alternative police policy, pursuing the fight against crime without supervision. Due to the proximity to his home town of Wolfenbüttel and the local nuclear waste repository Asse II Albrecht has for many years engaged in the anti -nuclear movement. He also advocates against right and is a member of the right-wing Committee of Alliance 90/The Greens.

In the European elections in 2009 Albrecht was elected on the federal list of the Greens in the European Parliament. He is the youngest German Member of the European Parliament and member of the European Union Parliamentarians European Parliament. Albrecht is for the Greens / EFA member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and substitute member of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament. He is also a member of the European Parliament delegation to the State of Israel and the delegations to Iraq. All his word messages in the EU Parliament can be accessed online in the archive. Albrecht maintains as an MEP regional offices in Hamburg, Hanover and Kiel. He cared for the Green Party, the Northern region of Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig -Holstein. All three associations have Albrecht granted approval for a renewed candidacy for the European Parliament again in November 2013 with a vote of over 90%. On the national party of Alliance 90/The Greens in Dresden, he was elected by the delegates at the historical result of 97.38 % of the votes at the position 6 of the Greens federal list for the European elections in 2014.

Albrecht is a founding member of the Institute of Solidarity modernity.

Positions

Albrecht has provided especially the protection of civil rights in the European Union at the center of his parliamentary duties. In particular, the challenges of digitization he emphasizes again and again. The internal expert of the Green Group has made at the beginning of his mandate mainly through its use for a different security policy in the negotiations of the Stockholm program a name. Albrecht was one of the leading critics of the EU agreement for the transfer of SWIFT bank data to the U.S. authorities and was instrumental in the rejection of the first agreement in February 2010. Albrecht also criticizes the collection and transfer of passenger data and calls for a rejection of corresponding projects in the European Parliament a. As rapporteur of the Legal Committee in the European Parliament Albrecht was involved in the establishment of minimum standards in criminal proceedings at EU level. Albrecht is considered as a data protection expert and is worden.Im named in early 2012 as rapporteur of the European Parliament for the proposed Data Protection Regulation of the European Union in October 2013 could Albrecht negotiations in the European Parliament, despite massive opposition from the U.S. IT lobby to a conclusion lead. After he had negotiated a compromise of nearly 4,000 amendments and this was adopted almost unanimously by the Interior and Justice Committee, the FAZ told him to " Zuckerbergbesieger. Albrecht is also rapporteur of the European Parliament for the left hand in the negotiation Privacy Framework Agreement between the EU and the U.S.. since the revelations of Wistlebowers Edward Snowden Albrecht has taken a leading role as a critic of European governments in the case of the monitoring programs of the NSA, GCHQ and other intelligence agencies and prompted a request from the investigation of the Interior Committee in the European Parliament.

Albrecht shall regularly consult a network for political issues. As Green representatives on the Conciliation Committee for so-called Telecoms Package and in the debate about Internet censorship he vehemently against a down -cutting of the rule of law standards and the protection of freedom of expression and freedom of information on the Internet and was able to largely prevail with his demands. Early Albrecht criticized the anti - piracy agreement ACTA, which was negotiated in 2008 by the European Commission at the international level. After Albrecht had repeatedly drawn the compatibility of ACTA with the EU law in doubt and was able to obtain the release of negotiation documents in a resolution of the European Parliament, the criticism was always louder. But only after the adoption of the agreement negotiated by the Council of Ministers and the introduction of the approval process in the European Parliament, there had been a broad public debate, in connection with which held numerous demonstrations against ACTA. Albrecht was one of the leading critics of ACTA.